International Fugitive Who Faked Vaccine Research A TRUE Story of a CDC Criminal Conspiracy
by Edward Morgan
If you don�t know the story of Poul Thorsen, CDC vaccine researcher, fraudster, con artist
and an international fugitive from justice, you don�t know the real story about the
CDC at all.
(And the vaccine industry hopes you never find out�)
The best book on this subject is called Master Manipulator � The Explosive True Story of
Fraud Embezzlement and Government Betrayal at the CDC by James Ottar Grundvig.
You can find the book at this Barnes & Noble link.
The book features a foreword by famed investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson and an introduction
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from the World Mercury Project.
I strongly urge you to get this book.
Amazon.com also has it available in hardcover or kindle editions.
Every member of Congress should be required to read this book.
It�s that explosive.
It tells the shocking but true story of deep corruption and criminality inside the CDC�
a story the entire corporate-run media (CNN, NYT, WashPo etc.) deliberately covers up to
deceive the American public.
Here, I�m reprinting the Foreward and Introduction to give you a taste of what you�ll find
in the book.
What you�re about to read here will astonish and anger you because it pulls back the veil
on a criminal cabal known as the CDC that�s engaged in a felony racketeering operation
that should be investigated under RICO Act laws.
Read on and decide for yourself� (if you cite any of the text below, be sure to give
credit to the book called �Master Manipulator� by James Ottar Grundvig).
FOREWORD BY SHARYL ATTKISSON
Today fraudulent research and corruption are sadly becoming more commonplace.
The case of Poul Thorsen, for example, stands out in terms of shameless audacity�stealing
grant money meant for autism research.
His actions only add to the questions of alleged corruption surrounding the Danish Studies
designed to erase any association between vaccines and autism, sponsored by the world�s
premier public health agency: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
One might expect fraud and corruption in government, but many Americans will be surprised to hear
of it inside the CDC, the same agency that fumbled the arrival of Ebola virus on US shores
in 2014.
The fact that the CDC would contract with the likes of Dr. Thorsen on the crucial research
of vaccines and autism, and never consider setting aside his findings after his twenty-two-count
criminal indictment, speaks to the waning credibility of the world�s premiere public
health agency.
INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
Statistics don�t lie, the saying goes, but statisticians do.
As an environmental lawyer and veteran of hundreds of legal battles with some of the
world�s biggest polluters, I know that statistical�or epidemiological studies�are the go-to weapon
of industry junk scientists.
These hired guns�so-called tobacco scientists�know that �fixing the science� or an epidemiological
study is as easy as lighting up a smoke.
For example, one could easily design an epidemiological study to �prove� that sex does not make
one pregnant.
The trick is simply to get rid of all the pregnant people before one analyzes the data.
Now you have a study that shows lots of people having sex without consequence.
Voila!
That�s one of the many tricks CDC�s star biostitute, Poul Thorsen, used to deceive
the public about the evidence linking mercury laced vaccines to autism.
Prior to conducting his MMR study, Thorsen used �exclusions� to eliminate children
with autism from the target population.
Employing this and an inventory of other magician subterfuges, Thorsen authored a Danish study
that CDC, for years, has been presenting as its gold standard evidence that thimerosal
doesn�t cause autism.
This is a story of how CDC used a con man to gull the public and ended up getting conned
itself!
Poul Thorsen is a world-class villain whose manipulation of health data gave CDC and big
pharma what they wanted: a report clearing thimerosal of any possible role in the autism
crisis.
His story merits a book-length expose because the fraud he casually helped orchestrate has
had a monumental impact on the health of millions of children globally.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) most often cites Poul Thorsen�s crooked research
as the final word on the controversy linking vaccines to autism.
CDC rarely mentions that Poul Thorsen is the subject of a twenty-two-count, 2011 indictment
by the U.S. Department of justice for wire fraud and money laundering in connection with
more than $1 million in research grants that he pilfered from CDC while he ginned up fraudulent
studies to �prove� that vaccines don�t cause autism.1 His crimes have won him a mug
shot on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services� (HHS) �most wanted�
list.2 Thorsen�s former employer, Aarhus University�Denmark�s university hospital
system�permanently expelled him from practice in 2010.The fact that he is roaming free in
Denmark and is easy to find, despite the federal indictment, indicates a lack of enthusiasm
by HHS to file the necessary extradition papers and press for his capture.
The agency has good reason to fear that a public trial would expose the pervasive corruption
throughout CDC�s vaccine division and the fragility of the science supporting CDC�s
claims about vaccine safety.
(A video discussing the truth behind vaccines.)
Dr. Thorsen is one of seven co-authors and the data manager for the two leading foreign
studies offered by CDC as the foundation for its claims that vaccines do not cause autism.
For nearly a decade, critics have pointed out that CDC�s Danish studies are thinly
veiled flimflam.3 Besides employing the threadworm gimmick of manipulating exclusions to selectively
eliminate kids, on some studies, with autism diagnoses from the study pool, Thorsen and
his co-author used another novel dodge to �exculpate� mercury-laced vaccines.
Thorsen�s trick was not even a sophisticated brand of junk science, but it was a devastatingly
effective way to deliver the conclusion CDC wanted.
Thorsen�s Madsen et al. 2003 (�Madsen 2003�),4 purported to exonerate thimerosal�the
mercury-based vaccine preservative as the causative agent in the autism epidemic by
showing that autism rates in Denmark increased after the Danish government removed thimerosal
from vaccines in 1992.5 But even the most casual critic could see that the increase
in Danish autism was illusory since it was not actually based on an increased incidence
of the disease.
It was simply an artifact of Denmark�s new reporting protocols.
Here�s how Thorsen and his cronies pulled off this fraud: In 1993, the same year Denmark
removed thimerosal-containing vaccines from distribution, it coincidentally required,
for the first time, that outpatient autism cases be reported on the government s national
disease registry.
Prior to 1993, only inpatient cases were reported.
These represented less than 10 percent of the total.
Denmark�s new reporting protocols increased the reported autism incidence cases by nearly
1300 percent.
Dr.Thorsen and his pals took advantage of that artificial rise to suggest that real
autism incidence had increased following thimerosal�s ban.The authors also violated established
peer-review scientific protocols by deleting the entire 2001-year class of seven-year-olds
from the final published version.6 That deletion was flagrant research fraud.
The 2001 cohort was the first to be entirely free from thimerosal exposure in their vaccines.
The subsequent analysis (Gronborg et al. 2013) of that data showed a steady decline in autism
rates over a ten-year period following the removal of thimerosal in 1992.
Emails obtained under the Freedom of Information laws show that Thorsen, his co-authors, and
CDC officials were all aware of these frauds when they published the study.
Responsible journals, including Lancet and JAMA, rejected the Madsen study.
It took a letter from the CDC�s Jose Cordero, then director of its new National Center for
Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD),7 to strong-arm a lesser journal,
Pediatrics, to finally publish the study.
Pediatrics has earned notoriety as a frequent publisher of vaccine industry junk science.
Pediatrics raises a substantial portion of its operating budget from vaccine makers.
Pediatrics is the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is notorious
for its conflicts with big donors.
In 2016, the AAP was forced to drop its multi-million donor, Coca-Cola, as it�s only �gold sponsor.�
In exchange for $3 million over six years, AAP had been shilling for the sugary drink
maker, which it called a distinguished company due to Coke�s commitment to �better the
health of children worldwide.
AAP only ended the mercenary romance when published exposes disclosed that Coke had
been paying hired scientists to fix the science to �prove� that sugary drinks were not
the culprit in the obesity epidemic.
At the 2007 National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine (IOM) meeting, �Autism and the
Environment: Challenges and Opportunity for Research,� Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotti, an
internationally renowned environmental epidemiologist from the University of California, Davis,
criticized the Madsen 2003 study for deliberately blurring outpatient and inpatient data sets:
�The study, therefore is not a rigorous design, because you cannot compare the before
and after periods because of artifacts in how the database was constructed, and specifically
how it changed over time.� When CDC scientists finally took an authentic look at the Danish
autism data a decade later, they demolished the conclusions in Madsen 2003.
CDC�s subsequent study, Gronborg et al. 2013, published in JAMA Pediatrics8 directly
contradicted Thorsen and Madsen.
Gronborg and her co-authors found a 33 percent drop in autism spectrum disorder incidence
in Denmark following the withdrawal of thimerosal in 1992.
Thorsen was also data manager for Kreesten Madsen�s companion study on the MMR vaccine,
Madsen et al 2002.9 That study used similar deceptive statistical devices and flawed data
to �prove� MMR safety.10 That study employed CDC�s trademark ruse of including many children
who were too young to receive the autism diagnosis, which at that point usually occurred at age
four in Denmark.
CDC epidemiologists have consistently used this ploy in their phony autism research to
dampen the autism signal in various studies.The 2002 Madsen MMR study also included a substantial
number of unvaccinated children and employed a suite of other statistical gimmicks to mask
the association with the MMR vaccine and dampen the autism signal.
Having trained in CDC�s sophisticated fraud during his apprenticeship with the two notorious
Madsen studies, it�s no wonder that Poul Thorsen felt so at ease stealing more than
$1 million that CDC had directed Thorsen to spend on managing data for those and other
studies.
As James Grundvig brilliantly points out in the pages that follow, without Poul Thorsen,
there would have been no Danish studies for the CDC to misuse all these years as the spear
tip for its propaganda campaign on vaccine safety.
However, Grundvig gives us more; Thorsen was not a lone bad apple.
Grundvig shows that CDC insiders, including Dr. Frank DeStefano (Director of the Immunization
Safety Office); Dr. Marshalyn-Yeargin-Allsopp (Head of the Developmental Disabilities Branch);
Dr. Diana Schendel, a CDC epidemiologist research scientist and Thorsen s longtime girlfriend,
who in 2014 took a permanent position in the epidemiology department at Aarhus University,
where Thorsen committed the theft of autism research money; and Dr. Coleen Boyle (Director
of the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities) fully supported
and orchestrated Thorsen s fraud.
Boyle made her bones at CDC as lead investigator of 1984-1987 Congressional investigation of
Agent Orange.
In that post, Boyle and her team reported: �no association� between the jungle defoliant
dioxin and the grim inventory of rare cancers and autoimmune diseases that sickened tens
of thousands of U.S. troops who fought in the war.
Her work allowed the government to deny benefits and treatment for sickened soldiers for five
years.
In 1990, the Pentagon admitted during congressional hearings that Agent Orange was indeed the
culprit.Today, Boyle is the director of CDC�s National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities.
According to Dr. William Thompson, a seventeen-year CDC senior vaccine safety scientist and current
CDC employee who recently filed for whistleblower status, Boyle and her team of researchers
committed research fraud in a subsequent 2004 American study to conceal numbers suggesting
that the MMR vaccine was associated with higher rates of autism in African-American children.
Poul Thorsen, the Master Manipulator, is the dark wizard of a federal agency that is steeped
in corruption and compromised by financial entanglements with the pharmaceutical industry.
Thorsen participated in a criminal conspiracy with his CDC bosses to distort science and
fleece the American taxpayer.
He then turned on his cronies and stole the money CDC paid him to conjure up his phony
research.
Thorsen�s greatest crime, however, is the epidemic of millions of children with developmental
disabilities who are the legacy of his fraud.
Dr. Poul Thorsen should be arrested and brought back to the United States to stand trial and
receive justice.
If that happens, we might see those
in the CDC who sponsored his fraud be held finally accountable.
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